Treatment of Native Americans

By ttaylor2gwd51

  • Chinese immigrants in the American West

    Although they had dreams of finding gold, many Chinese immigrants instead found employment building the transcontinental railroad.

  • Mexican Americans in the American West

    Much like Chinese immigrants, Mexican American citizens were relegated to the worst-paying jobs under the worst working conditions.
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    The discovery of gold in California set off a frenzied Gold Rush to the state.
  • The reservation system

    The reservation system

    The Indian reservation system was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle.
  • Homestead Act of 1862

    Homestead Act of 1862

    The Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of land.
  • Sioux Treaty of 1868

    Sioux Treaty of 1868

    The treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle in the Black Hills reservation.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. It restricted immigration from China for ten years. The ban was later extended on multiple occasions until its repeal in 1943
  • Dawes Act of 1887

    Dawes Act of 1887

    An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians.

  • The Ghost Dance

    A shaman had a vision. Claiming that God had appeared to him in the guise of a Native American and had revealed to him a bountiful land of love and peace.

  • Wounded Knee Massacre

    The US Cavalry Regiment surrounded an encampment of Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.